[Bristol-Birds] Washington Co., TN goodies

Hey folks,
     On Wednesday, 21 DEC 2005, Dianne Draper and I  birded in western 
Washington Co., TN.  Some of the goodies we came across  included a Loggerhead 
Shrike, a Ruddy Duck, and a dozen Gadwalls on  Pleasant Grove Rd., a Palm 
Warbler 
near Bowmantown Ruritan; and Horned Larks and  American Pipits on Corby Bridge 
Rd.  
     Adam Campbell recently posted a message on  Butternut Naturalists 
yahoogroup with a link to a picture he recently took of  the albino Red-tailed 
Hawk 
near Snapp Bridge.  Dianne and I went  looking for it and found it perched in 
a snag by a barn just south of the  bridge.  While viewing it, a large raptor 
flew from near the river  toward the albino Red-tail.  When it got directly 
over the  red-tail, the raptor veered off to the side, and we could see  that 
it 
was an immature Bald Eagle!  We watched the eagle fly off behind a  line of 
trees, then looked back to find that the red-tail was nowhere to be  seen.  I 
guess everybody was taken by surprise!
     
Don Holt
Johnson City, TN

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